Environment

Some progressives say they're afraid to talk about climate science and the urgent need for climate action because it's too complicated.
In this TED Talk, Grist's David Roberts says it's easy to understand climate science, simple to communicate the danger of climate inaction, and he'll convince you if you give him just 17 minutes of your day:

The  state of global polar sea ice area in early June 2012 has once again  fallen below climatologically normal conditions (1979-2009).

 The latest report from NOAA reads as if it were science fiction. This stuff only happens in comic books and 007 movies I thought:

The California Fish and Game Commission on June 6 adopted regulations for the North Coast "marine protected areas" (MPAs) created under the controversial Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative.